This article is from WeChat official account: Music contact (ID: chuappgame) , author: Blizzard Boy _Shen Yan, head picture from: “The Battle of Cybertron: Siege” trailer
Recently, Netflix teamed up with the American toy giant Hasbro to launch a new “Transformers” series of animations-“Cybertan: Siege”, another wave of “Transformers” craze has arrived.
“Siege” focuses on the epic battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons on the planet Cybertron. Coincidentally, the “Transformers” live-action movie universe relaunch for the Hollywood big screen “Bumblebee” also has a lot of attention on Cybertron’s civil war.
Of course, game players have already been immersed and experienced this huge war.
“Siege” is the first work to meet the audience in the “War of Cybertron” animation trilogy series
Autobots, transform, set off!
“Transformers” is a toy brand created by Hasbro. In the past, in order to better open the market for these toys, Hasbro spent a lot of money and energy to produce “extended commercials”, the “Transformers” that became popular all over the world.G1″ animation.
In the next long period of time, Hasbro continued to inject new blood into “Transformers”. We ushered in the “Transformers G2” series, “Beast Wars” series, “Cthulhu Trilogy” series, etc. successively. “Transformers” has therefore become a well-known top animation brand. Entering the 21st century, the live-action movie universe has brought the influence and popularity of “Transformers” into a new era.
“Transformers G1” animation is a childhood classic of countless people
The “Beast War” series was introduced in China under the name of “Super Warrior”
“Transformers” movies that “sell copies” despite praise and criticismDifferent, but the ability to attract gold is well deserved
“Transformers” corresponds to a large number of adapted video games, involving many game platforms. Unfortunately, the quality of most adapted games can only be described as “poor”.
One year before the first “Transformers” live-action movie was released, in 2006, Hasbro announced a long-term cooperation with Activision to adapt and distribute a number of “Transformers” games. In the following days, several games adapted to match the schedule of live-action movies will be launched one after another, and they will be available on all platforms. The overall quality of these movie adaptations is mediocre. However, thanks to the live-action movie craze, the results are also very good, and they have also contributed to the sales of Hasbro’s movie accessories.
The “Transformers” adaptation of the game “Optimus Prime” on the FC console is generally recognized as a bad work
Activision’s live-action movie adaptation game
Later, Hasbro announced an ambitious new plan for “Transformers” “United Universe” (The Aligned Continuity). According to Hasbro’s vision, the United Universe will adopt a multi-pronged approach such as animation, novels, comics, and games.Style to expand the popularity of “Transformers”. Among them, the animation of the United Universe is based on “Proof of Leader” (Transformers: Prime); the novel is based on “The Way” (Exodus), “Exile” (Exiles) together with “Punishment” (Retribution)The trilogy together constitutes (Introduced and published in China); In terms of games, Activision is a natural collaborator. Activision’s first joint universe work is “Transformers: Battle for Cybertron.”
“The Battle of Cybertron”: a strong strike
Friends who have watched the “Transformers G1” animation must remember the content of the first episode: Millions of years ago, due to the protracted civil war between Autobots and Decepticons, the planet Cybertron, the hometown of Transformers, completely fell into energy failure. , The Autobot leader Optimus Prime had to lead his subordinates to embark on a space expedition on the “Ark” spacecraft. Unexpectedly, the Decepticon leader Megatron commanded the battleship “Retribution” to pursue the “Ark”…
As the classic setting of the “Transformers” series of universes, this story is set in several “Transformers” parallel universes(especially the aforementioned In the United Universe) is widely used.
Activision’s game “The Battle of Cybertron” directly uses the end of Cybertron’s civil war as an entry point. The plot is launched from the perspectives of Decepticons and Autobots. The Decepticon chapter involves Megatron. The attack on the Iron Ankylosaurus orbital space station, Starscream’s surrender, Megatron’s release of evil dark energy in Cybertron’s core, and so on. The Autobot article then tells the story of Optimus Prime’s leadership module given by Cybertron’s core. There are Autobots fighting with the Iron Ankylosaurus. The ending of the game ended with the Autobots defeating the iron armored dragon and converging at the launch site of the Ark.
The swan song of defending against natural enemies
Assault team of three Autobots, as the game progresses, its members will continue to change
“The Battle of Cybertron” was produced by High Moon Studios, an established game studio under Activision. It was released in 2010 and landed on both PC and console. In addition, Activision has launched an NDS version with its own exclusive plot and characters for this game, and also launched a derivative game “Cybotan Adventure” based on the Wii platform.
In terms of specific gameplay, “War of Cybertron” integrates third-person shooting and vehicle simulation driving.(Transformers can be deformed anyway)As a whole, it also introduces special character skills, exclusive occupations and other mechanisms for this work, which can be regarded as enriching the fun of some games.
For players, especially “Transformers” fans, the most eye-catching feature of Cybertron is its unique artistic style: as the plot is set during the Cybertronian Civil War, there are many signatures in the game Characters such as Optimus Prime, Megatron, Bumblebee, etc. have the iconic features of “Transformers G1” familiar to everyone (such as Optimus Prime’s mask And red and blue armor, Megatron’s arm cannon, Hornet’s horned helmet and cute loli body, etc.), it is also filled with a cool and avant-garde style of science fiction.
The Optimus Prime in the game is Coolool
Actually, according to the lead conceptual artist Jimmy Daly(Jim Daly), “The Battle of Cybertron” His artistic style also draws on the styles of “Transformers G1” and many classic sci-fi movies, such as “Electronic World Contest” and “Blade Runner”. Especially in “Electronic World Contest”, the dazzling light bars of characters such as Optimus Prime in the game are undoubtedly coming from here. On the other hand, the “Cybertan Battle: Siege” animation produced by Netflix, Optimus Prime is running on Cybertron in the image of an earth truck, which is shocking-of course, we also know that the producer did this for Cooperate with Hasbro’s related toys sales……
The artistic style of the movie “Electronic World Contest” has largely influenced “Cybertan”
High Moon Studio has buried a lot of exclusive Easter eggs for “Transformers” fans in the game. The most worth mentioning is that when the producer list is played at the end of the game, the corresponding soundtrack is from the well-known singer Stan Bush< span class="text-remarks" label="Note">(Stan Bush)’s “The Touch”. If you don’tUnderstand the meaning of “The Touch” for “Transformers”, I strongly recommend you to watch the 1986 version of “Transformers Movie”… Just another word, the voice of Optimus Prime is the official Queen Peter Cullen(Peter Cullen)!
“The Battle of Cybertron” was widely praised by “Transformers” fans after its release, and IGN gave it 9 points. But strictly speaking, IGN’s score contains a lot of sentiment points, because the positioning of this game tends to be a fan-oriented game, the gameplay has no outstanding new ideas, and the task flow is monotonous and repetitive. The average media rating of “War of Cybertron” is only 7.7, which is still far from the boutique.
In any case, because “War of Cybertron” is an important part of the United Universe Project, the partner Hasbro attaches great importance to this game. It not only assisted in the promotion of the game many times before the game was released, and officially After the release, Hasbro also launched a corresponding official toy product line specifically for the game.
Official toys launched by Hasbro
“The Fall of Cybertron”: Recreating a Legend
Two years later, in 2012, “The Cybertron”War” ushered in the sequel “The Fall of Cybertron”, and IGN gave 8.5 points this time.
The plot of this work inherits the previous works. The main line is the launch of “Ark”, and the branch line involves Megatron’s resurrection, Starscream’s plot to usurp the throne, the birth of the robotic dinosaur army, and the evil conspiracy of Sasser Wait. Different from the “Decepticon-Autobot” arrangement used in the single-player plot level of “War of Cybertron”, this game introduces narrative techniques such as flashbacks and interspersed narratives, allowing players to alternately play Optimus Prime and Mengda Characters such as handsome, fit King Kong, Megatron, Jazz, Wire Rope, etc., the overall tension and appeal of the story have become extremely strong.
The launch of “Ark” has become a key plot in the game
Megatron is in this I played a rebirth
Compared with the previous game, there have been many changes to the gameplay of Cybertron. For example, the single player level no longer allows the player to freely choose the character to participate in the battle, and the player can only use the character specified by the corresponding level. The benefits of this That is, the producer can carefully design the level around the ability and style of a specific character, which significantly improves the repetitive and monotonous problem of the previous generation process tasks, and also makes the character image of the specific character more full. Some levels (such as the last